In celebration of the release of my new horror novel, Dead Ringers, I reached out to some of my favorite filmmakers to talk about our mutual love of the genre, formative influences, and what the future holds. After his work as director of the hugely successful film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars,…
The word doppelganger comes from the German language, but the concept—of a person discovering the existence of their double, either natural or supernatural—long predates the coining of the German term. In Irish folklore, the word “fetch” was used to describe the phenomenon. (Sorry, Gretchen…you weren’t too early to make fetch happen, you were too late.)…
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The late Dr. Isaac Asimov was nothing if not prolific. By most estimates he turned out more than 500 books on a wide variety of topics in a working lifetime that apparently spanned about a half century. Asimov became a household name with his popular works of science fiction, including the Foundation Series and numerous…
Back in 2004, Max Phillips and I launched a labor-of-love project we called Hard Case Crime, intended to revive the style of the great old paperback crime novels of the 1940s and 50s. We thought it might, if we were lucky, last a half dozen titles before people stopped humoring us. Last August, we…
